The Divine Office In Anglo Saxon England 597 C 1000

Author : Jesse D. Billett
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 487 pages
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Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781907497285

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The Divine Office in Anglo-Saxon England, 597-c.1000 by Jesse D. Billett Pdf

When did Anglo-Saxon monks begin to recite the daily hours of prayer, the Divine Office, according to the liturgical pattern prescribed in the Rule of St Benedict? Going beyond the simplistic assumptions of previous scholarship, this book reveals that the early Anglo-Saxon Church followed a non-Benedictine Office tradition inherited from the Roman missionaries; the Benedictine Office arrived only when tenth-century monastic reformers such as Dunstan and Æthelwold decided that "true" monks should not use the same Office liturgy as secular clerics, a decision influenced by eighth- and ninth-century Frankish reforms. The author explains, for the first time, how this reduced liturgical diversity in the Western Church to a basic choice between "secular" and "monastic" forms of the Divine Office; he also uses previously unedited manuscript fragments to illustrate the differing attitudes and Continental connections of the English Benedictine reformer, and to show that survivals of the early Anglo-Saxon liturgy may be identifiable in later medieval sources.

Author : Gerald P. Dyson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783273669

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Priests and Their Books in Late Anglo-Saxon England by Gerald P. Dyson Pdf

Fresh perspectives on the English clergy, their books, and the wider Anglo-Saxon church.

Author : Ann W. Astell
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780268208141

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The Saint's Life and the Senses of Scripture by Ann W. Astell Pdf

Through close examination of ancient, medieval, and modern Lives of the saints, Ann W. Astell demonstrates how the historical transformation of hagiography as a genre correlates with similar changes in biblical studies. Christian hagiography flourished from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries, illuminating the gospel through the overlapping forms of exempla and vita. Originally, the Lives of the saints were understood as hermeneutical extensions of the Bible—God authors the saint, just as God authors the divinely inspired scriptures. During the medieval period, a sense of dual authorship between God and the cooperating saint developed, paralleling the Scholastic impulse to assign greater agency to the human writers of scripture. Then, in the sixteenth century, powerful new anxieties about historical truth pushed hagiography aside for biography, its successor. Drawing on her expertise in the history of Christianity and biblical exegesis, Astell convincingly shows how this radical shift in hagiography’s status—the loss of the literal, allegorical, tropological, and anagogical senses of the Lives—serves as a bellwether for modern biblical reception.

Author : Kate H. Thomas
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110661958

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Late Anglo-Saxon Prayer in Practice by Kate H. Thomas Pdf

This monograph examines Anglo-Saxon prayer outside of the communal liturgy. With a particular emphasis on its practical aspects, it considers how small groups of prayers were elaborated into complex programs for personal devotion, resulting in the forerunners of the Special Offices. With examples being taken chiefly from major eleventh-century collections of prayers, liturgy and medical remedies, the methodologies of Anglo-Saxon compilers are examined, followed by five chapters on specialist kinds of prayer: to the Trinity and saints, for liturgical feasts and the canonical hours, to the Holy Cross, for protection and healing, and confessions. Analyzing prayer in a wide range of different situations, this book argues that Anglo-Saxon manuscripts may have included far more private offices than have so far been recognized, if we see them for what they were.

Author : Brandon Hawk
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487516987

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Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England by Brandon Hawk Pdf

Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England is the first in-depth study of Christian apocrypha focusing specifically on the use of extra-biblical narratives in Old English sermons. The work contributes to our understanding of both the prevalence and importance of apocrypha in vernacular preaching, by assessing various preaching texts from Continental and Anglo-Saxon Latin homiliaries, as well as vernacular collections like the Vercelli Book, the Blickling Book, Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies, and other manuscripts from the tenth through twelfth centuries. Vernacular sermons were part of a media ecology that included Old English poetry, legal documents, liturgical materials, and visual arts. Situating Old English preaching within this network establishes the range of contexts, purposes, and uses of apocrypha for diverse groups in Anglo-Saxon society: cloistered religious, secular clergy, and laity, including both men and women. Apocryphal narratives did not merely survive on the margins of culture, but thrived at the heart of mainstream Anglo-Saxon Christianity.

Author : Claudia Bolgia,Rosamond McKitterick,John Osborne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521192170

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Rome Across Time and Space by Claudia Bolgia,Rosamond McKitterick,John Osborne Pdf

An exploration of the significance of medieval Rome, both as a physical city and an idea with immense cultural capital.

Author : Ursula Lenker,Lucia Kornexl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110629842

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Anglo-Saxon Micro-Texts by Ursula Lenker,Lucia Kornexl Pdf

In this volume, scholars from different disciplines – Old English and Anglo-Latin literature and linguistics, palaeography, history, runology, numismatics and archaeology – explore what are here called ‘micro-texts’, i.e. very short pieces of writing constituting independent, self-contained texts. For the first time, these micro-texts are here studied in their forms and communicative functions, their pragmatics and performativity.

Author : Tamara Atkin,Francis Leneghan
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843844358

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The Psalms and Medieval English Literature by Tamara Atkin,Francis Leneghan Pdf

An examination of how The Book of Psalms shaped medieval thought and helped develop the medieval English literary canon.

Author : Helen Gittos
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780199270903

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Liturgy, Architecture, and Sacred Places in Anglo-Saxon England by Helen Gittos Pdf

One of the first studies to consider how church rituals were performed in Anglo-Saxon England. Brings together evidence from written, archaeological, and architectural sources. It will be of particular interest to architectural specialists keen to know more about liturgy, and church historians who would like to learn more about architecture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198913757

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Author : Saint Benedict (Abbot of Monte Cassino)
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780879072643

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The Old English Rule of Saint Benedict by Saint Benedict (Abbot of Monte Cassino) Pdf

Intro -- Titlepage -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations of Authors and Works Cited -- Maps -- Introduction -- The Rule of Saint Benedict as Translated by Saint Æthelwold of Winchester -- Appendix 1: I. Concerning the Kinds of Monks (BL MS. Cotton Faustina A. x) -- Appendix 2: LXII. Concerning the Monastery's Priests and Their Servants (BL MS. Cotton Faustina A. x) -- Appendix 3: "King Edgar's Establishment of Monasteries"--Appendix 4: Ælfric's Homily On Saint Benedict, Abbot -- Bibliography

Author : Susan Irvine,Winfried Rudolf
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487514440

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Childhood & Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture by Susan Irvine,Winfried Rudolf Pdf

Childhood & Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture counters the generally received wisdom that early medieval childhood and adolescence were an unremittingly bleak experience. The contributors analyse representations of children and their education in Old English, Old Norse and Anglo-Latin writings, including hagiography, heroic poetry, riddles, legal documents, philosophical prose and elegies. Within and across these linguistic and generic boundaries some key themes emerge: the habits and expectations of name-giving, expressions of childhood nostalgia, the role of uneducated parents, and the religious zeal and rebelliousness of youth. After decades of study dominated by adult gender studies, Childhood & Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture rebalances our understanding of family life in the Anglo-Saxon era by reconstructing the lives of medieval children and adolescents through their literary representation.

Author : Tiffany Beechy
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780268205140

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Aesthetics and the Incarnation in Early Medieval Britain by Tiffany Beechy Pdf

This rich study takes Insular art on its own terms, revealing a distinctive and unorthodox theology that will inevitably change how scholars view the long arc of English piety and the English literary tradition. Drawing on a wide range of critical methodologies, Aesthetics and the Incarnation in Early Medieval Britain treats this era as a “contact zone” of cultural clash and exchange, where Christianity encountered a rich amalgam of practices and attitudes, particularly regarding the sensible realm. Tiffany Beechy illustrates how local cultures, including the Irish learned tradition, received the “Word that was made flesh,” the central figure of Christian doctrine, in distinctive ways: the Word, for example, was verbal, related to words and signs, and was not at all ineffable. Likewise, the Word was often poetic—an enigma—and its powerful presence was not only hinted at (as St. Augustine would have it) but manifest in the mouth or on the page. Beechy examines how these Insular traditions received and expressed a distinctly iterable Incarnation. Often disavowed and condemned by orthodox authorities, this was in large part an implicit theology, expressed or embodied in form (such as art, compilation, or metaphor) rather than in treatises. Beechy demonstrates how these forms drew on various authorities especially important to Britain—Bede, Gregory the Great, and Isidore most prominent among them. Beechy’s study provides a prehistory in the English literary tradition for the better-known experimental poetics of Middle English devotion. The book is unusual in the diversity of its primary material, which includes visual art, including the Book of Kells; obscure and often cursorily treated texts such as Adamnán’s De locis sanctis (“On the holy lands”); and the difficult esoterica of the wisdom tradition.

Author : Stephanie Clark
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487514389

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Compelling God by Stephanie Clark Pdf

While prayer is generally understood as "communion with God" modern forms of spirituality prefer "communion" that is non-petitionary and wordless. This preference has unduly influenced modern scholarship on historic methods of prayer particularly concerning Anglo-Saxon spirituality. In Compelling God, Stephanie Clark examines the relationship between prayer, gift giving, the self, and community in Anglo-Saxon England. Clark’s analysis of the works of Bede, Ælfric, and Alfred utilizes anthropologic and economic theories of exchange in order to reveal the ritualized, gift-giving relationship with God that Anglo-Saxon prayer espoused. Anglo-Saxon prayer therefore should be considered not merely within the usual context of contemplation, rumination, and meditation but also within the context of gift exchange, offering, and sacrifice. Compelling God allows us to see how practices of prayer were at the centre of social connections through which Anglo-Saxons conceptualized a sense of their own personal and communal identity.

Author : Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190851309

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The Care of Nuns by Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis Pdf

In her ground-breaking new study, Katie Bugyis offers a new history of communities of Benedictine nuns in England from 900 to 1225. By applying innovative paleographical, codicological, and textual analyses to their surviving liturgical books, Bugyis recovers a treasure trove of unexamined evidence for understanding these women's lives and the liturgical and pastoral ministries they performed. She examines the duties and responsibilities of their chief monastic officers--abbesses, prioresses, cantors, and sacristans--highlighting three of the ministries vital to their practice-liturgically reading the gospel, hearing confessions, and offering intercessory prayers for others. Where previous scholarship has argued that the various reforms of the central Middle Ages effectively relegated nuns to complete dependency on the sacramental ministrations of priests, Bugyis shows that, in fact, these women continued to exercise primary control over their spiritual care. Essential to this argument is the discovery that the production of the liturgical books used in these communities was carried out by female scribes, copyists, correctors, and creators of texts, attesting to the agency and creativity that nuns exercised in the care they extended to themselves and those who sought their hospitality, counsel, instruction, healing, forgiveness, and intercession.